Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging has increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005.It now makes up a third of a typical household's waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.

Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for burying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.

But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it is also applied to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.

There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collected. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.

71. What does the underlined phrase “that over-consumption” refer to?

A. Using too much packaging.     

B. Making more products than necessary.

C. Recycling too many wastes.     

D. Having more material than is needed.

72. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show       .

A. the tendency of cutting household waste   

B. the increase of packaging recycling

C. the rapid growth of supermarkets         

D. the fact of packaging overuse

73. According to the text, recycling       .

A. helps control the greenhouse effect        

B. means burning packaging for energy

C. is the solution to gas shortage            

D. leads to a waste of land

74. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.

B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.

C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.

D. Other products are better packaged than food.

75. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.     

B. Needless material is mostly recycled.

C. People like collecting recyclable wastes.

D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.

Robert Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.

When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobody paid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.

Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.

People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825, but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.

Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad. He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."

5．For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _____.

A. improving worker's houses 

B. providing the children with a good education

C. helping people to save money 

D. preventing men from getting drunk

6．From the passage we may infer that Owen was born _____.

A. into a rich family               B. into a noble family

C. into a poor family               D. into a middle class family

7．Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _____.

A. he lost all his money 

B. people who visited it were not impressed

C. he did not buy enough land 

D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly

8．We may infer from the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until _____.

A. 1771         B. 1816         C. 1825            D. 1860

How to protect children Web fans from unsuitable material on-line while encouraging them to use the Internet has long been discussed in the U.S.

For some parents, the Internet can seem like a jungle, filled with danger for their children. But jungles contain wonders as well as dangers and with good guides, some education, and a few precautions(预防措施), the wilds of the Internet can be safely navigated(航行). “Kids have to be on-line. If we tell our kids they can’t have access(机会) to the Internet, we’re cutting them off from their future,” said an expert.

Most kids have started to use search engines. Many of them are great for finding tons of interesting Internet sites, and they can also locate places where you might not want your kids to go. There are search engines designed just for kids. A certain software contains only sites that have been selected as safe. The most popular way to limit access would be to use what is known as a “content screener(过滤器)”. But this can’t be wholly reliable, and the best thing parents can do is to talk to their kids and let them know what is OK or not OK to see or do on the Internet. Another way is that mum or dad is nearby when the child is surfing(浏览) the Internet.

A few other tips

●Don’t put the PC in a child’s room but keep it in an area where mum or dad can keep an eye on things. That also makes the Internet more of a family activity.

●Ask your child what he or she has been doing and about any friends they make on-line.

●Tell your child not to give on-line strangers personal information, especially like address and phone number.

●And tell your children never to talk to anyone they meet on-line over the phone, send them anything, accept anything from them or agree to meet with them unless you go along.

28. The passage is mainly about the subject of _______.

A. American children going on-line              B. Internet in America

C. appreciating Internet                              D. opposing children’s on-line

29. The best way to protect children from improper material is _______.

A. to install(安装) a content screener on the computer

B. to buy some search engines for the children

C. to be nearby when they are surfing the Internet

D. to talk to the children and persuade them to tell right from wrong

30. Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A. Surfing the Internet is the best method of educating children.

B. Children’s not having access to Internet may have effect on their progress.

C. Using a content screener is most reliable for keeping children having access to Internet.

D. Searching engines can help children to select materials fit for them.

31. According to the passage, we can infer that _______.

A. soft wares fit for children want programming

B. a child who is on-line is in danger

C. Internet is a jungle full of danger

D. Internet contains a lot of harmful sites

American popular music is played all over the world. People of all ages in all countries enjoy  61  (listen) to it. The reasons for  62  popularity are its fast pace and rhythmic beat. The music has many origins in the United States. Country music,  63  (come) from the rural areas in the southern United States, is one source. Many people appreciate this music because of the emotions  64  (express) by country music songs.

A second origin of American popular music si the blues. It described mostly sad feelings  65  (reflect) the difficult lives of American blacks. It is usually played and sung by black musicians, but it is popular with all Americans.

Rock music is a newer form of music. This music style was known  66  rock and roll in the 1950’s. Since then there  67  (be) many forms of rock music, hard rock, soft rock, punk rock, disco music and others. Many 68 (perform) of popular rock music are young musicians.

People hear these songs  69  (sing) in their original English or sometimes translated to other languages. The words may differ  70  the enjoyment of the music is universal.

If the weather is fine, we'll go.If ________， ________.

A．not；not  B．no；no   C．not；no　  D．no；not

In college, you will discover ______ learning is about, from teacher-taught to self-learner．

    A．which           B．that              C．what                  D．where

  高中生考入大学后，是否要立即为其配备笔记本电脑呢？对此，有人赞同，有人反对。请你根据下列表格的内容写一篇英语短文，并发表你的看法。

注意：1. 对所给要点逐一陈述并适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

3.       词数100左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

Is it necessary for freshmen to have a laptop when they go to university? Different people have different ideas.

 --- My husband and I really liked that car, but we didn’t have enough money at that time.

   --- Or you _____ it. What a pity!

    A. bought    B. had bought      C. would buy             D. would have bought

假设你是红星中学高二（1）班的学生李华。下面四幅图描述了上周五你参加的一次拓展训练活动。请根据图片的先后顺序，用英语为校刊写一篇短文。词数不少于60。

参考词汇：outward bound 拓展训练

Recently the south of the country has been worst         by the drought.

       A．impressed            B．affected               C．expressed            D．designed

 —Do you think George has passed the driving test?

   —No. If so, he _____his car to our college yesterday.

   A. would drive       B. drove     C. would have driven      D. had driven

 ______ you know English well, you can go traveling in western countries without difficulty.

A. Granted              B. Provided             C. Unless           D. Whether

 The proposals deserve support as the needs of children should be given ________ to.

  A. priority            B. preference       C. privilege      D. promotion

However urban life strikes you, cities worldwide have been growing ever more rapidly. Some of this growth has happened in the developed world, but the most dramatic increase has been in the Third World. Almost all the world’s population growth over the next 30 years will take place in the cities of developing countries.

 By the year 2030, for the first time in history, 60 percent of the world’s people will be living in cities.

 This is actually good news in some ways. “Cities are the fundamental building blocks of prosperity(繁荣),” says Marc Weiss, chairman of the Prague Institute for Global Urban Development, “both for the nation and for families.” Industrial and commercial activities in urban areas account for between 50 and 80 percent of the GDP(国内生产总值) in most countries of the world. “There’s the crazy idea that the way to deal with a city’s problems is to keep people out of them.” Weiss continued. “But the problems of the rural life are even more serious than those of the city.” For better or worse, urban-watchers are clear on one point: The quality of life for most people in the future will be determined by the quality of cities. Those cities will be bigger than ever. And yet, population numbers by themselves don’t determine a city’s prospects; after all, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Hamburg , Germany, have the same population. Nor is explosive growth necessarily the determining factor. “City problems,” one authority points out, “mostly have to do with weak, ineffective, and usually unrepresentative city governments.”

64. According to the passage, in the year of 2030 _______.

A. there will be many cities having a population of more than 10 million.  

B. rural area will be extinct (灭绝).

C. most people will live in cities.             

D. the third world will keep up with the developed world.

65. In the author’s opinion, _________.

A. better city, better life                   

B. both urban and rural areas will have a large population

C. the larger the population is, the faster a city develops

D. both urban and rural areas have larger GDP

66. The last paragraph implies that ____________.

A. Public services are ineffective.             

B. Cities are increasing too fast.

C. Population is not linked with development.

D. Government should be responsible for the problems in the cities.

When I was in elementary school, I always argued with a boy in my class. I have forgotten what the ___61___ (argue) was about, but I have never forgotten the lesson I learnt that day.

I was convinced that “I” was right and “he” was wrong but he argued that “I” was wrong and “he” was right. The teacher decided to teach us ___62__ very important lesson.She___63__ (bring) us up to the front of the class and placed the boy on the side of her desk and me on the other. In the middle of her desk, there was a large ___64___ round object. She asked the boy what color the object was. “White”, he answered. I couldn’t believe ___65___he said, because it was ___66___ (obvious) black! Another conflict started ___67___ him and me, but this time it was about color of the object. The teacher told me to stand in the place ___68___the boy had been standing. We changed the place and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, “White”. It was an object with two differently colored sides. From ___69___viewpoint it was white, but from my side it was black. Sometimes___70__ (look) at a problem from the other person’s view, we will come to a totally different conclusion.

 These achievements_______ without the contribution of Qian Xuesen, a key leader of the New China's nuclear, missile and so on．

       A．would have been unthinkable                B．would not be unthinkable

       C．would be unthinkable                           D．would not have been unthinkable

 ---I will never forget when we met the famous writer

   ---Neither will I. He______ some goods and was at the checkout of a supermarket.

  A. had selected         B. has selected     C. was selecting   D. selected